Note that the GUI and the guest agent are not targeted for the initial release of Fedora 17. These components will be released later as updates or with Fedora 18.

Detailed Description

The oVirt Project is an open virtualization project providing a feature-rich, end to end, server virtualization management system with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more.

The oVirt Project is a comprehensive ecosystem of projects delivering a complete integrated platform on a well defined release schedule. These are components designed and tested to work together.
In addition oVirt provides a crucial venue for user and developer cooperation, and is the first truly open and comprehensive data center virtualization management initiative.

Benefit to Fedora

Adding the oVirt project to Fedora will enable using it to build a stable and richful and large-scale virtualization environment.
Combining oVirt with the current virtualization infrastructure in Fedora (libvirt + KVM) will attract users interested in constructing such a large-scale virtualization environment.

Scope

The scope of the feature includes a large-scale virtualization management system, including: